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The Dillon Henry Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$141k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$117,846
Organizations funded a year
4 to 20
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$537k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Dillon Henry Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationEnvironmentInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$140k33%
FY20234$144k0%
FY20227$154k0%
FY20219$181k22%
FY202012$236k25%
FY201920$135k30%
FY201816$337k31%
FY201716$229kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$1.4MEducation$155kEnvironment$20kCivil Rights$15kArts & Culture$8kRecreation & Sports$6kCrime & Legal$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
IL
MI
NY
NV
CA
VA
AZ
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Action Kivu Inc$1,288,711883%
The Surfrider Foundation$20,00020%
Witness Inc$15,00020%
University of California Santa Barbara$12,0007n/a
The Howard University$8,00040%
Calvin University$8,00040%
University of la Verne$8,00040%
University of California- Davis$6,0003n/a
President and Fellows of Middlebury College$6,00030%
Claremont McKenna College$6,00030%
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All grantees of The Dillon Henry Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Action Kivu Inc$1,288,711883%
The Surfrider Foundation$20,00020%
Witness Inc$15,00020%
University of California Santa Barbara$12,0007n/a
The Howard University$8,00040%
Calvin University$8,00040%
University of la Verne$8,00040%
University of California- Davis$6,0003n/a
President and Fellows of Middlebury College$6,00030%
Claremont McKenna College$6,00030%
Northwestern University$6,00030%
American University$6,00030%
Kalamazoo College$4,00020%
Loyola Marymount University$4,00010%
Chapman University$3,50020%
Mills College$1,60010%
Sarah Lawrence College$1,00010%

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($152k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Dillon Henry Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAction Kivu Inc: $1,288,711 over 8y, 83% of budgetThe Surfrider Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWitness Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Howard University: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCalvin University: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of la Verne: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetClaremont McKenna College: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican University: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKalamazoo College: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLoyola Marymount University: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChapman University: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMills College: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSarah Lawrence College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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About The Dillon Henry Foundation

How much does The Dillon Henry Foundation give?
The Dillon Henry Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $141,346 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Dillon Henry Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (87%), Education (10%), Environment (1%).
Who are The Dillon Henry Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Action Kivu Inc ($1.3M), The Surfrider Foundation ($20k), Witness Inc ($15k).
Does The Dillon Henry Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Dillon Henry Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is The Dillon Henry Foundation based?
The Dillon Henry Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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